augurous

[Lat. augur, and Eng. suffix -ous.] Full of augury; prescient, presaging, foreboding. "So fear'd The fair-man'd horses, that they flew back, and their chariots turn'd, Presaging in their augurous hearts the labours that they mourn'd." Chapman: Iliad., âu-gur-ship, 8. [Lat. augur , and Eng. suff. -ship.] The office or dignity of an augur. though it is true that in the augurship nobility was more respected than age."-Bacon: Hist. of Life and Death (1658). (Richardson.)